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GAK 2 Austria Vienna 2	[ { "content": "GAK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Austria Vienna", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 6 } ]
Admira / Wacker 0 Sturm Graz 3	[ { "content": "Admira / Wacker", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Sturm Graz", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 18 } ]
Linzer ASK 1 FC Tirol Innsbruck 3	[ { "content": "Linzer ASK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "FC Tirol Innsbruck", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 13 } ]
Standings (tabulated under played, won, drawn, lost, goals	[]
for, against, points):	[]
FC Tirol Innsbruck 6 4 2 0 13 5 14	[ { "content": "FC Tirol Innsbruck", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
Austria Vienna 6 4 2 0 9 5 14	[ { "content": "Austria Vienna", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
SV Salzburg 5 3 2 0 4 1 11	[ { "content": "SV Salzburg", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
Sturm Graz 6 2 3 1 8 5 9	[ { "content": "Sturm Graz", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
GAK 6 1 3 2 8 10 6	[ { "content": "GAK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
Rapid Wien 5 0 5 0 3 3 5	[ { "content": "Rapid Wien", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
SV Ried 5 1 1 3 6 5 4	[ { "content": "SV Ried", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
Linzer ASK 5 0 3 2 4 8 3	[ { "content": "Linzer ASK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
Admira / Wacker 6 0 3 3 5 10 3	[ { "content": "Admira / Wacker", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
FC Linz 6 0 2 4 1 9 2	[ { "content": "FC Linz", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
CRICKET - RAIN BRINGS PREMATURE END TO SRI LANKA MATCH.	[ { "content": "SRI LANKA", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 39 } ]
COLOMBO 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "COLOMBO", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
The one-day match between Sri Lanka and a World XI was abandoned on Saturday because of rain.	[ { "content": "Sri Lanka", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 26 }, { "content": "World XI", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 42 } ]
Scores: World XI 102-0 (M. Waugh 39 not out, S. Tendulkar 56 not out) off 21.4 overs v Sri Lanka.	[ { "content": "World XI", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 8 }, { "content": "M. Waugh", "label": "PER", "start_index": 24 }, { "content": "S. Tendulkar", "label": "PER", "start_index": 45 }, { "content": "Sri Lanka", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 87 } ]
British hostage in Chechnya describes ordeal.	[ { "content": "British", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Chechnya", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 19 } ]
LONDON 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "LONDON", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
A British aid worker, held hostage in Chechnya for nearly four weeks, said on Saturday a cocked Kalashnikov had been thrust into his mouth at one point during his ordeal.	[ { "content": "British", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 2 }, { "content": "Chechnya", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 38 }, { "content": "Kalashnikov", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 96 } ]
Michael Penrose, a 23-year-old worker with the group Action Against Hunger, described his ordeal to a news conference when he arrived back in Britain from Moscow.	[ { "content": "Michael Penrose", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Action Against Hunger", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 53 }, { "content": "Britain", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 142 }, { "content": "Moscow", "label": "LOC", "start_index...
" The worst period of physical manhandling was during that time when we were beaten with Kalashnikovs and at one point I had a Kalashnikov held to the back of my throat--cocked, " he said.	[ { "content": "Kalashnikovs", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 89 }, { "content": "Kalashnikov", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 89 } ]
" For the first period we were held in a small room with no bed or anything.	[]
We had very little food and sometimes went two or three days without eating . "	[]
Gunmen seized Penrose, who comes from Swerford in southern England, Frenchman Frederic Malardeau and six other hostages from their car in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on July 27.	[ { "content": "Penrose", "label": "PER", "start_index": 14 }, { "content": "Swerford", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 38 }, { "content": "England", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 59 }, { "content": "Frenchman", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 68 }, { ...
The assailants had demanded a ransom of 300,000 pounds ($465,000) but no money was paid by the charity when they were released on Wednesday.	[]
The hostages were held in a house in or near Grozny which was bombarded regularly.	[ { "content": "Grozny", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 45 } ]
" During the last 15 days of being held, the fighting in Grozny was very close.	[ { "content": "Grozny", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 57 } ]
At first it was street fighting outside the house and then we came under very heavy shelling and bombardment from conventional weapons like tanks, artillery and grenade launchers, " he said.	[]
Penrose had been working for the charity which provides food to civilians for only a few weeks before he was captured.	[ { "content": "Penrose", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
When asked if he would return to the mountainous region where rebels have been fighting Russian troops for full independence, Penrose said: " Not for the time being.	[ { "content": "Russian", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 88 }, { "content": "Penrose", "label": "PER", "start_index": 126 } ]
I don't think it's safe for me.	[]
But maybe in the future, depending on the circumstances . "	[]
Princess Diana send message to Mother Teresa.	[ { "content": "Diana", "label": "PER", "start_index": 9 }, { "content": "Mother Teresa", "label": "PER", "start_index": 31 } ]
LONDON 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "LONDON", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
Britain's Princess Diana has sent a message to seriously ill Mother Teresa, the nun to whom she has turned several times for spiritual guidance.	[ { "content": "Britain", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Diana", "label": "PER", "start_index": 19 }, { "content": "Mother Teresa", "label": "PER", "start_index": 61 } ]
Diana's office said on Saturday the princess had sent a message to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning missionary as news broke this week of her battle against heart problems and malaria.	[ { "content": "Diana", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Nobel Peace Prize-winning", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 71 } ]
A spokeswoman declined to release details of the message.	[]
Diana first met the Albanian-born missionary in Rome in 1992.	[ { "content": "Diana", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Albanian-born", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 20 }, { "content": "Rome", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 48 } ]
She said afterwards that the meeting had fulfilled her " dearest wish " and the two women have met several times since.	[]
The princess, who has carved out a major role for herself as a helper of the sick and needy, is said to have turned to Mother Teresa for guidance as her marriage crumbled to heir to the British throne Prince Charles.	[ { "content": "Mother Teresa", "label": "PER", "start_index": 119 }, { "content": "British", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 186 }, { "content": "Prince Charles", "label": "PER", "start_index": 201 } ]
The 85-year-old nun said in the past that she was praying for the couple, whose divorce is expected to become final next week.	[]
Doctors caring for Mother Teresa in a Calcutta hospital said on Saturday that her fever had fallen and her malaria was under control but she remained on a respirator in intensive care.	[ { "content": "Mother Teresa", "label": "PER", "start_index": 19 }, { "content": "Calcutta", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 38 } ]
CRICKET - PAKISTAN 339-4 V ENGLAND - close.	[ { "content": "PAKISTAN", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 10 }, { "content": "ENGLAND", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 27 } ]
Saeed Anwar c Croft b Cork 176	[ { "content": "Saeed Anwar", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Croft", "label": "PER", "start_index": 14 }, { "content": "Cork", "label": "PER", "start_index": 22 } ]
Aamir Sohail c Cork b Croft 46	[ { "content": "Aamir Sohail", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Cork", "label": "PER", "start_index": 15 }, { "content": "Croft", "label": "PER", "start_index": 22 } ]
Ijaz Ahmed c Stewart b Mullally 61	[ { "content": "Ijaz Ahmed", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Stewart", "label": "PER", "start_index": 13 }, { "content": "Mullally", "label": "PER", "start_index": 23 } ]
Inzamam-ul-Haq c Hussain b Mullally 35	[ { "content": "Inzamam-ul-Haq", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Hussain", "label": "PER", "start_index": 17 }, { "content": "Mullally", "label": "PER", "start_index": 27 } ]
Salim Malik not out 2	[ { "content": "Salim Malik", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
Asif Mujtaba not out 1	[ { "content": "Asif Mujtaba", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
Extras 18	[]
Fall of wicket - 1-106 2-239 3-334 4-334	[]
To bat - Wasim Akram, Moin Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Mohammad Akam	[ { "content": "Wasim Akram", "label": "PER", "start_index": 9 }, { "content": "Moin Khan", "label": "PER", "start_index": 22 }, { "content": "Mushtaq Ahmed", "label": "PER", "start_index": 33 }, { "content": "Waqar Younis", "label": "PER", "start_index": 48...
England 326 all out	[ { "content": "England", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
Soccer - Nijmeh beat Nasr 1-0.	[ { "content": "Nijmeh", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 9 }, { "content": "Nasr", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 21 } ]
TRIPOLI, Lebanon 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "TRIPOLI", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Lebanon", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 9 } ]
Nijmeh of Lebanon beat Nasr of Saudi Arabia 1-0 (halftime 1-0) in their Asian club championship second round first leg tie on Saturday.	[ { "content": "Nijmeh", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Lebanon", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 10 }, { "content": "Nasr", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 23 }, { "content": "Saudi Arabia", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 31 }, { "c...
Scorer: Issa Alloush (45th minute).	[ { "content": "Issa Alloush", "label": "PER", "start_index": 8 } ]
Attendance: 10,000.	[]
Adventurers start Canadian wilderness race.	[ { "content": "Canadian", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 18 } ]
PEMBERTON, British Columbia 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "PEMBERTON", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "British Columbia", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 11 } ]
About 350 adventurers from nine countries set out on Saturday to climb, raft, bike and run in a 323-mile (517-km) endurance race through the Canadian wilderness.	[ { "content": "Canadian", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 141 } ]
The event, called the Eco-Challenge, is part of a growing sport known as adventure racing in which competitors test their limits for days over a perilous wilderness course.	[ { "content": "Eco-Challenge", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 22 } ]
" I'm looking forward to this race.	[]
I think it will be more physically challenging and we'll have to go up against more diverse situations due to the terrain, " said Dr. Michael Stroud, a veteran Eco-Challenge participant.	[ { "content": "Michael Stroud", "label": "PER", "start_index": 134 }, { "content": "Eco-Challenge", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 160 } ]
The Eco-Challenge has been staged twice before--in Utah and Maine last year--and is modelled on similar races overseas.	[ { "content": "Eco-Challenge", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 4 }, { "content": "Utah", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 51 }, { "content": "Maine", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 60 } ]
The 70 teams in this year's race will will trek glaciers, climb mountains, whitewater raft, horseback ride, canoe and mountain bike along the grueling course.	[]
This year's race, the route of which was keep a secret until Friday evening, is being held near Pemberton, British Columbia, about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Vancouver.	[ { "content": "Pemberton", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 96 }, { "content": "British Columbia", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 107 }, { "content": "Vancouver", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 163 } ]
The area is filled with treacherous mountain peaks, ice fields and frigid waters.	[]
Organisers expect about two-thirds of the participants to drop out or be disqualified before the finish.	[]
The hardy ones are expected to complete the course in about six days, with first-place finishers receiving $10,000 in prize money.	[]
In the Eco-Challenge, competitors race in teams of five which must include both men and women.	[ { "content": "Eco-Challenge", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 7 } ]
Team members must remain within 100 yards (metres) of each other at all times and finish together.	[]
With racers carrying about 40 pounds (18 kg) of gear on their backs, broken bones, sunstroke, dehydration and exhaustion are common.	[]
Cholera kills 21 in southern Nigeria.	[ { "content": "Nigeria", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 29 } ]
LAGOS 1996-05-28	[ { "content": "LAGOS", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
An outbreak of cholera has killed 21 people in a week at Ubimini in oil-rich southern Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Saturday.	[ { "content": "Ubimini", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 57 }, { "content": "Nigeria", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 86 }, { "content": "News Agency of Nigeria", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 99 } ]
The chairman of the local council, Damian Ejiohuo, said drugs had been rushed to the area to quell the disease and the community needed a safer source of drinking water to prevent future outbreaks.	[ { "content": "Damian Ejiohuo", "label": "PER", "start_index": 35 } ]
Epidemics are common in rural areas of Nigeria where piped water is not usually available.	[ { "content": "Nigeria", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 39 } ]
Malawi's ex-president Banda says he's feeling well.	[ { "content": "Malawi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Banda", "label": "PER", "start_index": 22 } ]
BLANTYRE 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "BLANTYRE", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
Malawi's frail former president, Kamuzu Banda, said on Saturday in a rare public interview that he was feeling well despite his advanced years.	[ { "content": "Malawi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Kamuzu Banda", "label": "PER", "start_index": 33 } ]
" I feel all right and I eat everything that is put on the table.	[]
And that means I am all right, " he told reporters invited to his home.	[]
Banda, a vegetarian teetotaller believed to be 97, walked unaided but supporting himself on a walking stick.	[ { "content": "Banda", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
He clutched a fly whisk which for a long time symbolised his obsession with power.	[]
His health was the subject of much recent speculation.	[]
Malawi's undisputed ruler for three decades, he lost power in the first all-party elections in 1994.	[ { "content": "Malawi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
He spent a year under house arrest and was tried but acquitted last year on charges of ordering the murder of four opponents in 1983.	[]
Zimbabwe fires striking civil servants.	[ { "content": "Zimbabwe", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
Emelia Sithole	[ { "content": "Emelia Sithole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
HARARE 1996-08-24	[ { "content": "HARARE", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
The Zimbabwean government fired thousands of workers on Saturday for defying an order to end a strike which has crippled essential services and disrupted international and domestic flights.	[ { "content": "Zimbabwean", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 4 } ]
The Public Service Commission (PSC) said in a statement that the workers--including nurses, junior doctors, mortuary attendants, customs officers and firefighters--would be barred from entering their workplaces on Monday.	[ { "content": "Public Service Commission", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 4 }, { "content": "PSC", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 31 } ]
" All civil servants who did not return to work at their normal working hours, and remained working for the full working day on 23 August 1996, have been summarily dismissed ...	[]
with immediate effect, " it said in a statement.	[]
Union officials from the Public Service Association (PSA) were unavailable for comment.	[ { "content": "Public Service Association", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 25 }, { "content": "PSA", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 53 } ]
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Florence Chitauro told state radio her ministry had already begun recruiting other people to replace the strikers, sub-contracting some of the work to private firms.	[ { "content": "Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Florence", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 51 } ]

GAK 2 Austria Vienna 2

[ { "content": "GAK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Austria Vienna", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 6 } ]

Admira / Wacker 0 Sturm Graz 3

[ { "content": "Admira / Wacker", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Sturm Graz", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 18 } ]

Linzer ASK 1 FC Tirol Innsbruck 3

[ { "content": "Linzer ASK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "FC Tirol Innsbruck", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 13 } ]

Standings (tabulated under played, won, drawn, lost, goals

[]

for, against, points):

[]

FC Tirol Innsbruck 6 4 2 0 13 5 14

[ { "content": "FC Tirol Innsbruck", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

Austria Vienna 6 4 2 0 9 5 14

[ { "content": "Austria Vienna", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

SV Salzburg 5 3 2 0 4 1 11

[ { "content": "SV Salzburg", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

Sturm Graz 6 2 3 1 8 5 9

[ { "content": "Sturm Graz", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

GAK 6 1 3 2 8 10 6

[ { "content": "GAK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

Rapid Wien 5 0 5 0 3 3 5

[ { "content": "Rapid Wien", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

SV Ried 5 1 1 3 6 5 4

[ { "content": "SV Ried", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

Linzer ASK 5 0 3 2 4 8 3

[ { "content": "Linzer ASK", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

Admira / Wacker 6 0 3 3 5 10 3

[ { "content": "Admira / Wacker", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

FC Linz 6 0 2 4 1 9 2

[ { "content": "FC Linz", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

CRICKET - RAIN BRINGS PREMATURE END TO SRI LANKA MATCH.

[ { "content": "SRI LANKA", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 39 } ]

COLOMBO 1996-08-24

[ { "content": "COLOMBO", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]

The one-day match between Sri Lanka and a World XI was abandoned on Saturday because of rain.

[ { "content": "Sri Lanka", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 26 }, { "content": "World XI", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 42 } ]

Scores: World XI 102-0 (M. Waugh 39 not out, S. Tendulkar 56 not out) off 21.4 overs v Sri Lanka.

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British hostage in Chechnya describes ordeal.

[ { "content": "British", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Chechnya", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 19 } ]

LONDON 1996-08-24

[ { "content": "LONDON", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]

A British aid worker, held hostage in Chechnya for nearly four weeks, said on Saturday a cocked Kalashnikov had been thrust into his mouth at one point during his ordeal.

[ { "content": "British", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 2 }, { "content": "Chechnya", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 38 }, { "content": "Kalashnikov", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 96 } ]

Michael Penrose, a 23-year-old worker with the group Action Against Hunger, described his ordeal to a news conference when he arrived back in Britain from Moscow.

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" The worst period of physical manhandling was during that time when we were beaten with Kalashnikovs and at one point I had a Kalashnikov held to the back of my throat--cocked, " he said.

[ { "content": "Kalashnikovs", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 89 }, { "content": "Kalashnikov", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 89 } ]

" For the first period we were held in a small room with no bed or anything.

[]

We had very little food and sometimes went two or three days without eating . "

[]

Gunmen seized Penrose, who comes from Swerford in southern England, Frenchman Frederic Malardeau and six other hostages from their car in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on July 27.

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The assailants had demanded a ransom of 300,000 pounds ($465,000) but no money was paid by the charity when they were released on Wednesday.

[]

The hostages were held in a house in or near Grozny which was bombarded regularly.

[ { "content": "Grozny", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 45 } ]

" During the last 15 days of being held, the fighting in Grozny was very close.

[ { "content": "Grozny", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 57 } ]

At first it was street fighting outside the house and then we came under very heavy shelling and bombardment from conventional weapons like tanks, artillery and grenade launchers, " he said.

[]

Penrose had been working for the charity which provides food to civilians for only a few weeks before he was captured.

[ { "content": "Penrose", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]

When asked if he would return to the mountainous region where rebels have been fighting Russian troops for full independence, Penrose said: " Not for the time being.

[ { "content": "Russian", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 88 }, { "content": "Penrose", "label": "PER", "start_index": 126 } ]

I don't think it's safe for me.

[]

But maybe in the future, depending on the circumstances . "

[]

Princess Diana send message to Mother Teresa.

[ { "content": "Diana", "label": "PER", "start_index": 9 }, { "content": "Mother Teresa", "label": "PER", "start_index": 31 } ]

LONDON 1996-08-24

[ { "content": "LONDON", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]

Britain's Princess Diana has sent a message to seriously ill Mother Teresa, the nun to whom she has turned several times for spiritual guidance.

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Diana's office said on Saturday the princess had sent a message to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning missionary as news broke this week of her battle against heart problems and malaria.

[ { "content": "Diana", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Nobel Peace Prize-winning", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 71 } ]

A spokeswoman declined to release details of the message.

[]

Diana first met the Albanian-born missionary in Rome in 1992.

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She said afterwards that the meeting had fulfilled her " dearest wish " and the two women have met several times since.

[]

The princess, who has carved out a major role for herself as a helper of the sick and needy, is said to have turned to Mother Teresa for guidance as her marriage crumbled to heir to the British throne Prince Charles.

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The 85-year-old nun said in the past that she was praying for the couple, whose divorce is expected to become final next week.

[]

Doctors caring for Mother Teresa in a Calcutta hospital said on Saturday that her fever had fallen and her malaria was under control but she remained on a respirator in intensive care.

[ { "content": "Mother Teresa", "label": "PER", "start_index": 19 }, { "content": "Calcutta", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 38 } ]

CRICKET - PAKISTAN 339-4 V ENGLAND - close.

[ { "content": "PAKISTAN", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 10 }, { "content": "ENGLAND", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 27 } ]

Saeed Anwar c Croft b Cork 176

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Aamir Sohail c Cork b Croft 46

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Ijaz Ahmed c Stewart b Mullally 61

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Inzamam-ul-Haq c Hussain b Mullally 35

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Salim Malik not out 2

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Asif Mujtaba not out 1

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Fall of wicket - 1-106 2-239 3-334 4-334

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To bat - Wasim Akram, Moin Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Mohammad Akam

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England 326 all out

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Soccer - Nijmeh beat Nasr 1-0.

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon 1996-08-24

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Nijmeh of Lebanon beat Nasr of Saudi Arabia 1-0 (halftime 1-0) in their Asian club championship second round first leg tie on Saturday.

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Scorer: Issa Alloush (45th minute).

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Attendance: 10,000.

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Adventurers start Canadian wilderness race.

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PEMBERTON, British Columbia 1996-08-24

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About 350 adventurers from nine countries set out on Saturday to climb, raft, bike and run in a 323-mile (517-km) endurance race through the Canadian wilderness.

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The event, called the Eco-Challenge, is part of a growing sport known as adventure racing in which competitors test their limits for days over a perilous wilderness course.

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" I'm looking forward to this race.

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I think it will be more physically challenging and we'll have to go up against more diverse situations due to the terrain, " said Dr. Michael Stroud, a veteran Eco-Challenge participant.

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The Eco-Challenge has been staged twice before--in Utah and Maine last year--and is modelled on similar races overseas.

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The 70 teams in this year's race will will trek glaciers, climb mountains, whitewater raft, horseback ride, canoe and mountain bike along the grueling course.

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This year's race, the route of which was keep a secret until Friday evening, is being held near Pemberton, British Columbia, about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Vancouver.

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The area is filled with treacherous mountain peaks, ice fields and frigid waters.

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Organisers expect about two-thirds of the participants to drop out or be disqualified before the finish.

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The hardy ones are expected to complete the course in about six days, with first-place finishers receiving $10,000 in prize money.

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In the Eco-Challenge, competitors race in teams of five which must include both men and women.

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Team members must remain within 100 yards (metres) of each other at all times and finish together.

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With racers carrying about 40 pounds (18 kg) of gear on their backs, broken bones, sunstroke, dehydration and exhaustion are common.

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Cholera kills 21 in southern Nigeria.

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LAGOS 1996-05-28

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An outbreak of cholera has killed 21 people in a week at Ubimini in oil-rich southern Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Saturday.

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The chairman of the local council, Damian Ejiohuo, said drugs had been rushed to the area to quell the disease and the community needed a safer source of drinking water to prevent future outbreaks.

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Epidemics are common in rural areas of Nigeria where piped water is not usually available.

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Malawi's ex-president Banda says he's feeling well.

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BLANTYRE 1996-08-24

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Malawi's frail former president, Kamuzu Banda, said on Saturday in a rare public interview that he was feeling well despite his advanced years.

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" I feel all right and I eat everything that is put on the table.

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And that means I am all right, " he told reporters invited to his home.

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Banda, a vegetarian teetotaller believed to be 97, walked unaided but supporting himself on a walking stick.

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He clutched a fly whisk which for a long time symbolised his obsession with power.

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His health was the subject of much recent speculation.

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Malawi's undisputed ruler for three decades, he lost power in the first all-party elections in 1994.

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He spent a year under house arrest and was tried but acquitted last year on charges of ordering the murder of four opponents in 1983.

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Zimbabwe fires striking civil servants.

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Emelia Sithole

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HARARE 1996-08-24

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The Zimbabwean government fired thousands of workers on Saturday for defying an order to end a strike which has crippled essential services and disrupted international and domestic flights.

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The Public Service Commission (PSC) said in a statement that the workers--including nurses, junior doctors, mortuary attendants, customs officers and firefighters--would be barred from entering their workplaces on Monday.

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" All civil servants who did not return to work at their normal working hours, and remained working for the full working day on 23 August 1996, have been summarily dismissed ...

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with immediate effect, " it said in a statement.

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Union officials from the Public Service Association (PSA) were unavailable for comment.

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Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Florence Chitauro told state radio her ministry had already begun recruiting other people to replace the strikers, sub-contracting some of the work to private firms.

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